Our Group

Interested in working with our group?

Grad students at Caltech: if you wish to collaborate or discuss advising contact me, and we can discuss possibilities and openings in the group. Our group is mostly composed of physics and astronomy students.

Undergraduates interested in summer research, please contact me directly, we usually have ~2-3 summer undergraduate research fellows each year, and I’m also open to advising undergraduate thesis work.

At Caltech

Me (Phil Hopkins, Caltech Faculty)

Students:

Xiangcheng

Ma

Denise

Schmitz

David

Guszejnov

Antonija

Oklopcic

Mike

Grudic

Matt Orr

Kung-Yi

Su

Hannalore

Gerling-Dunsmore

Ivanna

Escala

Postdoctoral Opportunities

Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship positions in Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Caltech are available. Interested postdocs can apply from any area of theoretical physics or astrophysics, but those interested in working/collaborating with our group may be interested in any of the following range of topics:

Galaxy formation and large-scale structure

Star formation and the structure of the interstellar medium

Super-massive black hole formation and evolution,
and ‘feedback’ from AGN

The positions are fully independent, but if you are interested in collaboration with our group, we are especially interested in candidates who aim to compare theory and observations, and can interact with the exceptional observers as well as theorists at Caltech. In addition to competitive compensation, travel, and research budgets, fellows working with our group will have access to state-of-the-art computing facilities including our local theoretical astrophysics “Wheeler” and "Zwicky” clusters and multiple large allocations on NSF and NASA supercomputing facilities.